Social entreprenuers are society's change agents.
There's a rare breed of people who go beyond dreaming about changing the world, and actually roll up their sleeves and get busy doing it.
They move us beyond our stale and stuck ways of thinking to bring different perspectives and new solutions to the multitude of crises we're facing.
They are inspired and inspiring people who refuse to accept the prevailing (and painfully superficial) definition of success. They not only set their sights on creating opportunities not only for material provisions, but for lives of service, stewardship, and significance.
It's tempting to think these individuals are.... In real life, it's not as simple as that.
The Changemaker's Journey
Social entrepreneur's journey begins with a personal, and often painful, recognition of injustice or suffering. This inspires them to tap into their own inner resources, and understand the root causes of the misery or injustice, and not only envision a better way, but build a model for change, and then take that change to scale.
Recognition of pain or injustice
Tap into own internal resources
Understand the root causes
Envision a better way
Build a model for change
Scale the solution
One Common Feature
All social entrepreneurs have one thing in common: they build platforms that
These innovators and leaders found renewal and inspiration by working with staying close to people and communities they loved, people woh could recharge their spirits and sense of mission, and people who shared a sense of possibility, and helped them make it possible.
People-Centered Solutions
Redefining Success
All of these leaders, disrupters, rebels, and changemakers envision statistics of success that go beyond material metrics of wealth, power, status, or fame. They aren't even satisfied with changes in graduation rates, decreases in disease, or impacts on incarceration. They don't just focus on relieving symptoms of a social or environmental problem. But they find ways to get to the root causes and address them, stirring up positive change on a large scale, that others can replicate.
The Both-And Economy
So a social entrepreneur is a little bit like an economic mermaid.
We wanted to disrupt the binary way of thinking of the world, and politics, because this way causes us to miss out on many opportunities for change and transformation. Problems and solutions.
Social entrepreneurs - develop build, and scale their solutions in ways that bring about truly revolutionary change.
The capacity for empathy, ability reason and look for the cause. creatively and relentlessly seeking solutions to existing evils
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